ARC Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Learning Specialist at Jhpiego Nigeria

Jhpiego, an Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is a global leader in improving healthcare services for women and their families.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: ARC Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Learning Specialist

Job ID: 2023-4878
Location: Nasarawa
Category: International Positions
Employment Status: Full-Time

Overview

• The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities for the ARC project to initiate and implement various implementation research in Kano and Nasarawa state.
• This project aims to test ANC PNC innovations, disseminate and scale up as necessary.
• This includes providing technical leadership to capture project performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities.
• The specialist will work closely with the Program and M&E team to design, implement and supervise project M&E activities, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into program implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to capture project performance and results, including routine service delivery data reporting.
• In coordination with Research partners support baseline and end-line assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations.
• Supervise and mentor MERL Consultants and research assistants.
• Contribute results reporting to ARC by providing written documentation on MERL activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate.
• Provide leadership and direction on MERL to ensure the project technical and financial integrity to achieve program goal and corresponding objectives and targets.
• Review procedures and documentation in ARC related studies.
• Assess compliance with the study protocol, guidelines, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Perform source document verification to ensure the accuracy and completeness of study data.
• Verify proper implementation of the Birth Companion intervention of SOP
• Assess implementation and documentation of internal site quality management procedures.
• Ensure high-quality implementation, consistent with Nigeria national health guidelines, research protocols, information and reporting systems.
• Lead efforts to monitor and evaluate project interventions, document results and provide feedback to stakeholders to guide decision-making.
• Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping.
• Utilize the training data collected to inform strategic decision-making and project planning.
• Conduct targeted evaluations, including design, data collection, management and analysis
• Assist with coordination of operations research and quality analysis of operations research data.
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audits.
• Cultivate strategic MERL relationships and alliances with other malaria care and treatment projects and represent MERL activities in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations.
• Ensure relevant data is entered into JADE, Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data.
• Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team.
• Ensure that resources for implementation of MERL activities are available.
• Work with project and financial staff to prepare work plans and project budgets and track progress of project activities and budgets.
• Coordinate all MERL capacity-building activities with project staff, implementing partners and facility staff.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced Degree in International Public Health, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international health sector development programs.
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, implementation research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation.
• Demonstrated expertise working in a leadership capacity with international donors, senior government officials and policymakers.
• Demonstrable analytical skills and experiences to identify and evaluate best practices and state-of-the-art approaches to be utilized by the project.
• Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public and NGO sectors.
• Familiarity with Nigeria health management information system and other national M&E systems.
• Previous direct supervisory experience of professional and support staff.
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple projects/tasks, short deadlines, competing deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
• Ability to interact with established networks of senior level international health professionals, donors, universities and other partners.
• Awareness of, sensitivity to, and experience in working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural staff and groups.
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide.
• Excellent writing and communications skills, including demonstrated technical writing skills for publication preferred.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams.
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Access.
• Proficiency in word processing and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Hausa.
• Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to travel nationally.

Remuneration

• Salary Range: N5,975,090 - N10,849,638 annually
• Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.